Went for my first drug store GYN exam today.(updated)
Last October I was laid off and replaced by a 20 somethin' male who had about a tenth of the work experience I have for about half of what I was making. I hit the ground running and found a job within...
View ArticleSchweitzer burns GOP with red-hot cattle iron
It was a bad day for a few hapless Republican legislators in Montana Wednesday. These young guns from the GOP, who had excitedly volunteered, upon entering the legislature, to carry some of the...
View ArticleFlyover People
Believe me, I understand. I grew up in Oklahoma. I used to tell people, when you grow up in Oklahoma, you either grow up a redneck... or there's no chance in Hell you'll EVER be a redneck.I am the...
View ArticleMy America - Pancho and Lefty
I'm new around these 'ere parts, and I reckon that even if I live here for twenty years or more, I will still be new.The accent does it. When I meet people for the first time, I have always to repeat...
View ArticleThe Importance of Internet to a Rural Community
Point Arena's iconic lighthouse is the tallest lighthouse in the western United States. You never know what you've got 'til it's gone...The internet has become a lifeline to rural communities, and a...
View ArticleChainsaw Paul Ryan
Not so long ago Al Dunlap was the hottest CEO on Wall Street. He was considered a turnaround wizard. He would come in and takeover tired companies and turn them into lean, competitive, up-to-date...
View ArticleTell me lies
A few years ago I ran across the Adrian Mitchell poem "To whom it may concern" on Youtube. It was filmed at the International Poetry Incarnation in Royal Albert Hall, London (1965). I have read it many...
View ArticleFour dead in Ohio
41 years ago today, on my 22nd birthday, member of the Ohio National guard opened fire on student at Kent State. Another date that will live in infamy. Look for lao hong han to do a more in depth diary...
View ArticleHow the Unions Saved the Future: the Story of the Reaper-binder
This is a story that was told to me by my father. It is by no means extraordinary, probably there are thousands of similar stories from across the world. Yet I believe it is significant in reminding us...
View ArticleHillbilly Lasagna Update w/ Recipe
The secret to my famous Lasagna is the sauce and I learned all about making sauce from Phil. Until I met Phil, I thought that spaghetti sauce was made with cans – cans of tomatoes, cans of mushrooms...
View ArticleA Voice in a Flood
Some voices remind me of childhood. Mr. Walt Grayson was the local news voice since I was a little girl. Unknown to me I attended undergraduate school with his daughter who now works for Mississippi's...
View ArticleJoplin's Apocalypse Now
In a few hours, it will be exactly two weeks since a tornado ripped through my city and changed it forever.I was one of the “lucky ones.” The tornado missed the apartment complex where I live by about...
View ArticleThe Fierce Green Wallow Fire
A deep chesty bawl echoes from rimrock to rimrock, rolls down the mountain, and fades into the far blackness of the night. It is an outburst of wild defiant sorrow, and of contempt for all the...
View ArticleSummer Comes to the Kit House/Updated with photos
How do we know summer is here? Sunset dinner on the front porch. I sat out on our mail order Adirondack bench and thought, I want to remember every bit of this evening. I have never been more happy...
View ArticleInvisible waste (part 1): Water
Environmentally aware individuals are perpetually bombarded by the worst sort of false choice, one that's been drilled into us even by environmental activist organizations.You know the sort of false...
View ArticleA Vanishing Icon of Rural America: The Mail Pouch Barns
It's not news that the face of rural America has been undergoing great changes over the past couple of generations, but sometimes those changes take place slowly and almost imperceptibly, until one day...
View ArticleAllen West and Women
By now, you've likely heard about West's poutrage over Debbie Wasserman-Schultz telling the truth about him on the House floor yesterday. If you missed that, go here for the backstory, and here is his...
View ArticleMountaintop Removal Mines Means Higher Poverty and Health Issues for Communities
A study released by West Virginia University has shown that communities near Mountaintop Removal mines has a higher concentration of poverty and health issues than other communities giving those who...
View ArticleFaylyn's Pots
Faylyn makes and sells pots at a road stand she built 52 years ago. Her artistry is designing and throwing the pots. Pots are sturdy and dependable. Faylyn's Spirit Graces each One
View ArticleTumbleweed Clem
Clem is scared of everybody. He lives alone in a small dug out area under a bridge. People call him, Tumbleweed Clem, because the name fits him just fine.
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